Comverge Renews Deal with NV Energy

Monday, 03 May 2010 17:00

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Comverge, Inc has renewed their contract with NV Energy to continue managing the 143 megawatt smart grid-ready demand response program, the industry’s largest. Comverge will also provide its SuperStat programmable communicating thermostats. The two longstanding partners may also explore additional demand response technologies to support their Advanced Service Delivery (ASD) roll-out.

The new deal, which also calls for the build-out of an additional 12 megawatts by Comverge, follows the two-year build out of more than 100 MW of residential and small commercial load reduction.

Comverge president and CEO, R. Blake Young says this extended agreement “is another example of [NV Energy’s] continuing commitment to deliver impactful energy solutions to their customers. Having partnered with NV Energy to become pioneers in offering two-way communicating demand response programs, we are excited to continue our support of this program as they move to the next level of sophistication with their ASD roll-out. The continued growth of this program demonstrates to the rest of the industry the power of demand response and how our proven, comprehensive and smart grid ready solutions can support utilities in advancing the smart grid.”

The original May 2007 agreement between NV Energy and Comverge provided advanced technology to facilitate NV Energy’s smart grid transition. Comverge provided 100 MW of demand response capacity beyond the approximately 23 MWs NV Energy had previously built-out. In 2008, the contract was expanded by an additional 20 MW so that by the end of 2009 Comverge and NV Energy had 143 MW of installed capacity, creating one of the largest outsourced demand response projects in North America to date.

NV Energy provides electricity to over two million electric customers throughout Nevada and northeastern California.